The Communist Party of Nepal

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The Maoists claim that a third of the ‘People’s Liberation Army’ is made up of women. Within eight years, the Maoist revolution has spread from two districts in Nepal to almost two-thirds of the country. And women cadres are visible everywhere, in almost all of the country’s 75 districts, as propaganda activists, agricultural production team members and guerrillas.
Comrade Parvati (an alias), the head of the women’s department of the Central Committee, states that women have become battalion vice commanders and political commissars.
The daily round of news briefs of the Maoist insurgency, routinely lists women Maoists raped, abducted, disappeared and killed, largely by the security forces.In the notorious Doramba execution style killing that broke up the 2003 peace talks, security forces shot dead 19 unarmed members of the district ‘peoples government’. Six of those killed were women.
Days later, 44-year-old Relimaya Moktan, a female rural health worker in the village — suspected of being an informer — was shot dead by the Maoists in retaliatory killings.
Evidence of the growing numbers of women in the Maoist movement, can be gauged by the rising causalities each time there is a skirmish with the Nepali authorities. The death toll of women killed in the first two years of the insurgency was

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